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The talk show hosts have blathered about #WalkAway for a few days now. Finally - I looked it up. Definitely interesting!
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/03/former_liberal_to_progressives_time_to_walk_away.html
Brandon Straka says that less than a year ago, he was a liberal. He explains why he changed his mind in this "viral video" encouraging other progressives to "walk away" from the remains of the Democratic Party.
"Once upon a time, I was a liberal,” the gay NYC hairdresser begins. "I felt I’d found a tribe.” But, he said, they will do “absolutely nothing for you."
The video is at least a month old, but Straka appeared on FNC's 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' on Monday to discuss what he means:
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
Another story from an apparently Black Canadian woman who married an American.
https://www.redstate.com/kiradavis/2018/08/10/heres-chose-walkaway-liberalism/
My father-in-law was a popular local pastor, and also the first black man I’d ever met who called himself a Republican and a conservative. We were fast friends, and often talked politics. He would gently but intelligently challenge a lot of my notions and beliefs. I thought I knew a lot because I read a lot of headlines. He challenged me to read the actual stories. I thought I new a lot because I watched Bill Maher. He challenged me to watch the things going on around me. I thought I knew a lot because…well, I knew a lot! He challenged me to value results over talk. I wasn’t a convert, but I began to think that maybe I didn’t have the full picture when it came to my ideas about Republicans and conservatives. Could it be that I was depending too much on salacious headlines and raging talking heads for my opinions about conservatism?
Back to Brandon: http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/07/08/brandon-straka-walk-away-campaign-founder-denied-service-camera-store
Straka said the salesperson recognized him from his campaign and said that he couldn't sell anything to him because he did not support the "#WalkAway" campaign.
According to the movement's Facebook page, it's meant to "encourage and support those on the left to walk away from the divisive tenets."
Straka said following his encounter at the electronics store, he started "shaking" because he hadn't experienced negative backlash like that before.
"It took my breath away," he said.
Two videos, each of them very eloquent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pjs7uoOkag&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQXW2Ob1PU&feature=youtu.be
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday October 11 2018, @04:24PM (52 children)
A crap ton of Russian bots agree with you. [cnn.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 11 2018, @04:36PM (33 children)
We are all aware that an indictment is proof of nothing, other than some smooth talker convinced a jury that he might know something. The level of "proof" needed to indict is pretty low. But, yeah, your CNN link offers some minimal support to the D agenda.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday October 11 2018, @04:54PM (8 children)
We are all aware that an indictment is proof of nothing...
It's not prof that they committed a crime. But it is proof that they're not American, and therefore are lying about leaving the Democratic party.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 11 2018, @06:51PM (3 children)
Just FYI you should really get on board with the fact that our two party system is fucked and stop pushing D D D all the time. I am super liberal but voted 3rd party last election because I couldn't stomach the level of bullshit the DNC pulled to undermine the single good candidate we had. I'm not saying to NOT vote for any dems, but do stop pushing the partisan divide please.
Very good point you made, sadly some of these fools obviously don't care about facts. I can imagine it would be hard to admit being trolled by another country.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday October 11 2018, @07:17PM (2 children)
I'm a moderate, registered, Democrat so I'll continue to push for the party I support, thanks.
Frankly, I'd probably be a Republican by now if they hadn't been taken over by the crazies.
I believe that our two-party system is an emergent property of our system of voting. I support alternate voting systems that address this systemic issue, as do many of my Democratic peers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 11 2018, @11:57PM
#walkaway el monito. Embrace the darkness [youtube.com] and join us, we have cookies!
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @01:37AM
You're a moderate? Moderate smoker? Moderate drinker? Moderate scofflaw? Your politics certainly aren't moderate.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday October 11 2018, @11:24PM (2 children)
"I don’t buy the argument that Democrats have to decide whether we’re a party of blue-collar white men in rural America or a party of African-American women in the big cities, a PARTY OF IMMIGRANTS or a party of feminists." Stephanie Schriock. The President of EMILY’s List.
Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California. NO QUESTION THAT #voterfraud [twitter.com] did take place, and in favor of #CorruptHillary [twitter.com]! I put VERY STRONG sanctions on many Russians b/c of the horrible Election hacking!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @11:41AM
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - Carl Sagan
Those are very incredible claims indeed.
You seem to be SO certain they are true, it should be easy to PROVIDE EVIDENCE!
Besides, it would not surprise me if it came out that YOU performed VOTER FRAUD to get elected!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @12:49AM
Saw the following comment [soylentnews.org] in reply to a different comment. Seems so very appropriate in reply to YOUR comment:
One would, therefore, reasonably ask how much VOTER FRAUD are YOU PLANNING for 2018?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @12:19AM
AFAIK you do not need to be a citizen to be a member of a party.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday October 11 2018, @05:05PM (23 children)
I always enjoy our resident McCarthy, he won't be satisfied until everyone who disagrees with him (Russians) are all strung up, especially those Russian blacks like Kanye
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 11 2018, @06:04PM (22 children)
So the fact that you are being played for chumps by Russian intel does not bug you?? I guess you just enjoy the support after so many years of beimg told you are wrong, even if it is fake manipulative support.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Thursday October 11 2018, @06:48PM (21 children)
So the fact that you are being played for chumps by Russian intel does not bug you?? I guess you just enjoy the support after so many years of beimg told you are wrong, even if it is fake manipulative support.
It's so clear from the polling that Dems are increasing their ranks and increasing their engagement. It seems really far-fetched to think this campaign is actually going to get any Dems to switch.
If anything, it seems like it would increase Rep complacency and thus suppress the vote.
So why are they pumping it, then?
I think its purpose actually is to increase Rep complacency.
The Russian goal is not to help Republicans, it's to damage the US. They convince all the Reps it's in the bag. Then when Dems win big they claim fake news/conspiracy and pump up the rightwing murder fantasy stuff (that we're already seeing from Runaway recently) and try to get them to kick off another civil war.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by shortscreen on Thursday October 11 2018, @07:40PM (17 children)
What Russophobes fail to understand is that nothing said by supposed Russian trolls is or could be as DAMAGING to the US as the crap coming from the western corporate media, our own array of plutocrat-run think tanks and NGOs, or the two-party system itself.
Many of the talking points being attributed to bad-faith influence campaigns amount to nothing more than obvious "the emperor has no clothes" observations. The ultimate example is the release by wikileaks of hard evidence of DNC corruption. The corporate media directed the herd away from the reality of said corruption, and focused instead on attacking the messenger, which was somehow made out to be Russia.
They exclaim "Putin is trying to steal the emperor's clothes!" to avoid having to admit that the emperor has been naked the whole time.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday October 11 2018, @07:57PM (16 children)
What Russophobes fail to understand is that nothing said by supposed Russian trolls is or could be as DAMAGING to the US as the crap coming from the western corporate media,
Inciting a civil war, or even just more rightwing terrorism, is pretty damaging...
(Score: 3, Touché) by shortscreen on Thursday October 11 2018, @08:43PM (15 children)
Is Maxine Waters funded by Russia?
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday October 11 2018, @09:02PM (7 children)
Is Maxine Waters funded by Russia?
Did Maxine Waters murder Heather Heyer? Did she advocate for any violent acts? Did lefties commit 59% of the US terrorist attacks in 2017?
No Maxine said it might be OK to use your first ammendment rights in a restaurant.
The right murdered Heather Heyer. The right advoated for violent acts. [snopes.com] The right committed 59% of US terrorist attacks in 2017. [go.com]
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Thursday October 11 2018, @09:37PM (2 children)
Oh, so Russia did all of that stuff then?
No, it seems that you forgot about Russia for a moment and turned back to the domestic partisan conflicts. Those are the exact things that I just told you are truly damaging to this country far beyond any alleged Russian influence.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @05:40PM (1 child)
He can't hear you over his own monkey chatter.
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Thursday November 01 2018, @11:38PM
Damn Russian monkeys....
But why are they marked "made in China" and "assembled in the USA" on the ass?
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday October 11 2018, @11:33PM (3 children)
"If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and YOU CREATE A CROWD AND YOU PUSH back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere." Low I.Q. Crazy @MaxineWaters [twitter.com].
Impeach her & LOCK HER UP!! #ImpeachMaxineWaters [twitter.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @11:58AM (2 children)
A common ploy of the untrustworthy is to project their malfeasance on others.
If *I* am doing it, then surely they are, too!
Whenever I see such STRONGLY STATED, and vacuously UNSUPPORTED assertions... well, I look at where it's coming from.
Show me the PROOF, not the accusation (anyone can make accusations!) PROVE IT!
People in glass houses...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Friday October 12 2018, @01:13PM (1 child)
We have the proof. On video. Look & listen!! youtu.be/TtKDDqbwfRE [youtu.be]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @02:35PM
Thank you.
I'd heard you say "lock her up" so many times, I misread that as a reference to our former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
I apologize.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 11 2018, @09:15PM (6 children)
You're insane.
You righties constantly want everyone else to just accept your shitty views, to maintain freedom of speech (which I agree is more important than some white supremacist being able to post their shit), yet here we have you arguing that Maxine Waters is trying to start a civil war? Why? Because you are an intolerant fuck who can't handle someone else having the freedom to speak their mind? You can't stand that someone calls you out and you need to silence them?
Get fucked you hypocrite.
I did a quick search to see what bizarro world was saying about this and I found the following
Another site quoted the same thing, I guess protesting and speaking loudly are what you consider violence? moron
The 2nd site went on with their crazy rant
Jesus fucking christ what stupidity. If you're gonna get bent out of shape over that phrasing I think you should denounce Trump for telling his supporters to "exercise their 2nd amendment rights" which is a much more direct call for violence. Not to mention the million other things he's said that are way more fucked up than anything Maxine Waters has said.
You lot are fucked in the head really badly and you won't be satisfied until you see blood. You can pretend it is the liberal side of the US calling for violence, but that doesn't make it true. Keep making mountains out of mole hills while ignoring the volcanoes in your own yard. So. Fucking. Stupid.
(Score: 3, Touché) by shortscreen on Thursday October 11 2018, @09:40PM (5 children)
You got that strawman good.
And you forgot to blame Russia, so you fell into my trap the same as DeathMonkey.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 11 2018, @10:07PM (4 children)
See my first sentence.
There was no straw, just morons that can't handle facing their own hypocrisy.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 12 2018, @01:16AM (3 children)
http://www.nurturedevelopment.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/StrawMan2.jpg [nurturedevelopment.org]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @05:22PM (2 children)
Wow you gotta copy Azuma? Try originality you big turd.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 12 2018, @05:30PM (1 child)
Eat a big turd, bitch.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @07:28PM
Eat shit whiny cuck! Wanna fight about it? CIVIL WAR 2.0 BABEEEEEEE! Imma git me some Red Hats!!!
Hmm, I remember an even older war where the Bad Guys (tm) wore red as well, this seems relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 12 2018, @01:38AM (2 children)
Denial is not a river in Egypt.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 15 2018, @09:33PM (1 child)
No kidding, it seems to be an all-encompassing mental state for people like you.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 16 2018, @01:51AM
Your comedy it improving, but it still needs a lot of work.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday October 11 2018, @06:19PM (5 children)
Oh go fuck yourself. Your damned Democratic Party is far too right-wing, and you are too far gone in denial about the reasons She Lost.
I like the sound of #WalkAway, and not just because I'm an honorary alt-right incel. The only thing I don't like is that, because you Democrats cannot get away from right-wing positions such as identity politics, collective and several accountability, the systematic theft of wealth from the working and middle classes, that capitalist wet dream called the ACA¹, the fucking CIA Democrats, the police-surveillance state, massive military spending, etc, you're pushing people to the far, far right!
Why don't you idiots try moving left for a change… instead of alienating everybody except the CIA, the other four eyes, wealthy Wall Street elites, and petty bourgeois women with durable cisgender privilege² (and their ever desperate to get laid boy toys).
I won't be moving to the right. The Libertarian Party is left of the Democratic Party these days, and the Green Party is looking pretty good, as cautious as I am of a platform that seems to include identity politics. I would go for the Socialist Equality Party, but I'm not in Niles Niemuth's [niles2018.com] district, alas.
Oh! One more thing! Why the fuck is it that in Michigan, most of the Democrats this November (except for Stabenow iirc) nearly get failing grades on their NORML report card (Ds), while most of the Republicans get good grades (Bs and As)? Let me guess… NORML is just another Russian astroturf organization….
¹ We both know that the Democratic Party will conveniently forget about “Medicare for All” the minute they get power back.
² I'm inventing a term: durable cisgender privilege. Deal with it. The definition will require a post the length of a book, so use context clues.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 11 2018, @07:30PM (2 children)
Identity politics isn't a position, it's a rhetorical technique that exploits peer pressure and promotes groupthink.
It is true that identity politics is more inline with conservative values such as group loyalty/purity and authority, but identity politics has been used by many throughout history on all sides of political issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory#Political_ideology [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2, Informative) by shortscreen on Thursday October 11 2018, @08:20PM (1 child)
I'd say there's more to the PC/SJW faction than just their rhetorical technique. They have doctrine (diversity, privilege, etc.), chosen people (some minorities but not others), crusaders (antifa), demons ("nazis"), and heretics (anyone who disagrees) to be excommunicated. It's religious conservatism with a new skin on it.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 11 2018, @08:57PM
It almost sounds like they're a classic example of an Altemeyeran right-wing authoritarian movement.
I don't think they fit the bill for one of Altemeyer's elusive left-wing authoritarian movements. iirc, the examples he gave were of communist revolutions driven by cults of personality (pseudo-left as the Trotskyists would say). Instead, SJWs seem to approve of the capitalist system overall (they do not support the workers controlling the means of production, but they are ok with limited wealth redistribution within a capitalist framework such as single payer healthcare), and they reject a class-based analysis of the divisions of society (insisting that the fundamental divisions of society are race and sex, i.e. identity politics).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by cmdrklarg on Thursday October 11 2018, @09:37PM (1 child)
I will agree with you, up to the point where Democrats get a filibuster proof majority. At that point I think they will attempt to get something passed, and it will be done without GOP input or support. They will remember back to when the ACA was being worked on.
Something I found back then that describes that situation:
Now do I think the ACA was the greatest? Heck no, I wanted single payer national healthcare (like all other civilized countries do).
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 11 2018, @11:46PM
Anything passed via "reconciliation" ought to be considered to have not passed at all. Our constitution does not support passing bills via that method. Our constitution lays out what procedure we are to use.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 11 2018, @09:24PM (11 children)
What's funny is how shallow this "#WalkAway" nonsense is. They barely mention any specific policy positions at all, and policy is what makes someone a liberal or not. Did all of their policy positions change too? Did they used to be in favor of gay marriage, and are now no longer in favor of it? Did they used to be in favor of gun control, and now are no longer in favor of it? What substantive policy positions of theirs actually changed? It rarely even comes up.
If you change all of your views because some people who share many of the same positions are 'extreme', then you're just an idiot. If you haven't changed all of your views, then your status as a liberal did not change.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Aegis on Friday October 12 2018, @12:56AM
Yes, the gay NY hairdresser is totally opposed to Obama-marriage now!
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 12 2018, @01:24AM (9 children)
I think that you are being shallow. Few if any of these people are changing their own positions or policies. What they are saying is that they are tired of being used by the party to beat up the other party. They are tired of being lied to by the party. The party's policy is to accumulate power, and damn the policies.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @05:32AM
Really? Look at the terminology they're using and how they're framing things. They say that they 'used to be' liberals, as if their policy positions themselves changed. If they just meant that they don't like the democratic party, they would not need to frame it in that way. As it is, it's pure propaganda.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @02:47AM (7 children)
I have to agree with the other AC. I've long found the Log Cabin Republicans... queer. As in, I don't understand how somebody who is LGBT can be a member of the Republican Party. I completely understand why somebody in that category who lacks a womb would reject the Democratic Party, especially with how they and their supporters are clamping down on that facet of identity politics in a way that would make Janice Raymond proud.
(See White Women, Come Get Your People [nytimes.com] by Alexis Grenell for latest example and response The New York Times’ Alexis Grenell denounces white women for upholding the “patriarchy” [wsws.org] by Genevieve Leigh. Small part of Grenell's rant, granted... and certainly not the only thing wrong with it as WSWS points out.)
There is just something odd about a homosexual man moving to the Republican Party. Isn't he worried that with Kennedy and his libertarian attitude towards LGBT rights being replaced by a far right-wing ass-justice* known for partisanship and nominated by a Republican, his right to marry his life partner may be evaporating soon with no intention on the part of the Republican Party for a legislative remedy? Isn't he worried that sodomy laws may be once again found enforceable?
Why doesn't he join the Libertarian Party?
* couldn't resist
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 13 2018, @04:47AM (6 children)
Please name an instance of the rights of any group being revoked in this country. From the gay community's POV, I expect them to see the D party's past activism on behalf of gays in a good light. And, I expect them to see the R's past in a dim light. But, if any man or woman who is gay, is concerned about ANY OTHER ISSUES happens to agree with the R views on those issues - then they might consider becoming R's. The "rights" which they have fought are now assured, and they are in no danger of losing them. All of that, despite the fact that I disagree (strongly) with "gay marriage".
So, again, the shallowness seems to be on the D side. The R's have the depth to understand that not all people are single issue voters. Any gay, any woman, any black, any illegal alien, any Muslim, any member of any minority, may have joined with the D's based on one, two, or more issues - then broken with the D's based on their positions on any number of other issues.
More and more black people are explaining, pretty clearly, that blackness is not the only issue in their lives. More, they feel that the D's have only lied to them, and exploited them.
It should surprise no one that a ______________ person might have similar thoughts and ideas.
Unless, of course, the D's require registrants to sign with blood, and swear allegiance for life plus eternity. In that case, we might be surprised to see people breaking away from the party.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 13 2018, @04:49AM
Damn - sometimes I manage to build some really ugly sentences. Grammar Nazis - have fun.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @09:44PM (4 children)
I named two. The government involvement in the institution of marriage prevented homosexual life partners from having recognition of their status. Sodomy laws are the better example. In that case, governments decided it was in their purview to ban homosexual people from having sexual relationships, which is surely a Ninth Amendment right.
There is also the example of the Japanese concentration camps during World War 2. Now we see that ICE concentration camps are being built, and there are reports of US citizens effectively having their citizenship revoked because they are Latino.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 13 2018, @09:52PM (3 children)
You've almost made a point with your example two. The Japanese had rights temporarily revoked, during a period of crisis. Those rights were restored after the crisis.
As for your gay marriage bullshit - gays never had the "right to marry" in all of human history, until recently. Even ancient Greece didn't have gay marriage. Read my post again - I asked for examples of rights being revoked, after having been granted.
Blacks cannot be returned to the plantation owners.
Women can't lose the right to vote.
Anchor babies cannot be deported.
Gays can't be barred from pretending that they are married.
And, your best example, the Japanese citizens cannot be deported, or mass executed, or kept on reservations, or whatever else you might dream up. Temporary restrictions, born of fear, during a crisis does not constitute a revocation of rights.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday October 13 2018, @11:50PM
I'm pretty sure everything you listed could happen. It's just incredibly unlikely and would require some fraught/heated amending of the Constitution in some cases.
Support for gay marriage is just too high for it to go away:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/support-for-same-sex-marriage-isnt-unanimous/ [fivethirtyeight.com]
http://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage/ [pewforum.org]
Example: support among "White evangelical Protestants" increased from 13% in 2001 to 35% in 2017. In other words, support among one of the groups most closely associated with anti-LGBT sentiment is now closer to 50% than 0%.
The trend might slow down, but will probably continue as older Americans die off. But what could cause the trend to reverse? Something really bad would have to happen.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @02:51AM (1 child)
Marriage is a bad example then. Heterosexual couples also pretend to be married. They cheat, and they divorce. In fact, marriage is a privilege, not a right. It is a social and legal construct.
I take the libertarian view anyhow: the government has no place in the marriage business. If your faith does not allow for homosexual marriage, that is fine. The Goddess I worship allows for such things. So then we uncover a right that may be involved in gay marriage. Freedom of religion is a right. But perhaps that is moving the goalposts.
You missed sodomy laws. I'll also add miscegenation laws. It is an inherent right of two consenting adults to have sexual relations.
They most certainly do constitute revocation of rights. Yet another example is back during the civil war when Lincoln jailed journalists in flagrant violation of the First Amendment.
(Of course, the Republican and Democratic parties have both changed quite a bit 150 years later, so that must not be interpreted as related to the modern Republican Party, and in fact, I do not think we can stretch what the current head of the Republican Party has said about journalists to imply a repeat of such a thing.)
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 14 2018, @04:01AM
You haven't really read my journal entry. All you need do is to watch the two videos. Black folk are figuring out that the two parties have not reversed. The D's want to keep them on the plantation. The D's think they "own" the black vote. Or, just go to Youtube, and do a search for #WalkAway. Watch any number of the videos that pop up. Matter of fact, the D's think they "own" a whole bunch of voting blocks, like the gays. They don't "own" any damned thing - they won't even "own" their responsibility in keeping the black man down.
"Here's some welfare, Nigga, don't forget to vote for us in November!"
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.